Alex hospice is going places
ALEXANDRA – The Feel to Heal project aims to create equity for women across Africa, according to the organisation’s executive director.
The Alex Hospice and Rehabilitation Centre continues to grow its network and strike partnerships.
The hospice will soon be moving to its new premises on Lenin Drive in the Far East Bank of Alexandra. It recently formed a formidable partnership with the Institute for Applied Alchemy which is working tirelessly to ensure the facility’s state-of-the-art premises, estimated to cost about R2 million to run annually, must fast become self-sustaining.
The Institute for Applied Alchemy, based in Cape Town, was established three years ago as a way to implement leadership transformation across corporate, government and civil society sectors. It has since formed strategic partnerships with Alex Hospice and Rehabilitation Centre, the Black Farmers Association of South Africa and the Forum for Social Solutions.
The institute’s executive director Chantel Oppelt is the brains behind the hospice’s journey to self-sustenance and visited Cape Town to seek corporate funding and sponsorships to guarantee its financial independence, even before it opens its doors.
The hospice’s latest initiative is the Feel to Heal project. Oppelt said, “Shirneal [Damons] came up with the Feel to Heal solution having been through her own personal journey. She has a background in health sciences and is able to lead with her heart to inspire inner emotional processing.”
The Feel to Heal project launched in Joburg and Cape Town in December and seeks to radically address the challenge of lack of access to financial resources, especially for women-led ventures. The launch follows a trip to Zimbabwe where the Feel to Heal team engaged with various thought leaders in government and the private industry on the way forward in diversifying corporate leadership and opening opportunities to economic ventures for women.
The organisation’s executive director Shirneal Damons said, “Feel to Heal is a project focused on building choice and access for economic sustainability and diversifying leadership in both public and private sectors to include women. It also focuses on gender-based violence and aligns with the South African National Development Plan 2030 and the Zimbabwean Vision 2030.”
Catherine Masunda – the secretary for the Southern Africa Women in Tourism, founder-director of Youth 2 Youth in Zimbabwe, and Zimbabwe Women in Tourism – was among the among those invited to South Africa for the introductory Feel to Heal roadshow.
She said, “Through the Feel to Heal process I’ve learned that emotional processing is a critical component missing in leadership at all levels.”
Details: Shirneal Damons sdamons@quadellia.co.za
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